Lamentations 1:16-18

Names of God Bible

¹⁶I’m crying because of all these things.
    My eyes—my eyes flow with tears.
        No one can give me the comfort I need to keep me alive.
            Everyone is too far away from me.
                My children are devastated because my enemies have won.”

¹⁷Zion holds out its hands.
    No one offers it comfort.
    Yahweh has given this order about Jacob:
    His own neighbors will become his opponents.
    Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

¹⁸“Yahweh is right in what he did,
    because I rebelled against his word.
    Please listen, all you people, and look at my pain.
    My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

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